Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-05
MAKE READY.

Referring to the coming tide OF immi-
grafton and the great influx Of home
seekers, the San Francisco Alta, predicting
the arrival of 100000 home-seekers in
side Of TWO years, says
The next twoyears will bring an access of
million TO the population of California The
movement IS largely from the Upper Missis-
sippi Valley. amongst people who are only in
the second or third generation from the pioneer
settlers OF that region The migratory tendency
IS hereditary with them. Their ancestors felt
crowded on the Atlantic Coast and went for
ward into the wilderness in New York and
pennsylvania, only to swarm again over the
Central West, and along with IL disposition 60
see where the sun goes down which uotU
amounts 20 a constitutional tendency That
population Is under marching orders for Cali
fornia. From its midst people have come here
a guests ana tourists, and have carried back
the glad adings of winterless lani where the
climate neither freezes nor roasts the energies
ont OF mon, and where women at least their
rights IN the Probate Csurt of nature nv receiy-
ing as their inheritance Ewes share ia the Eden
estate. Tho Am must reneet
the advice 70 Central and Northern California
that, ina IS, as the march hitherward has
started the most enterprising communities here
VIII get the earliest aud largest share.
fes, and those communities will he adj
Judged most embarrassing" that most
make ready" for the new conner Where
the home-seeker can locate with least dis
comfort, least loss of time in preparing his
home and with the prospect of the speedi-
est return, there will he drive his stakes.
The people now coming will not sacrifice
years OF their lives in preparing homes :;
they expect to buy lands upon which
within the first year they can begin to
reap some profit from their outlay.
The one thing TO do Of all Others is 10
make ready; bring water to the land
where needed; secure to it good roads;
Tor colonies, prepare it by actual survey;
by laying out streets and roads by re-
serving public school and church grounds
by erecting neat houses that may be i'm.
medlatelY occupied; by arranging for the
attaehment Of water rights to the titles of
every subdivision; by providing easy
terms of sale, and aids to settlement and
culture OF the soil, that the home-seeker
may avail of it If he choose. The
towns and cities of California that exrrc,
additions to local population by reason of
the influx OF newcomers, must inprore.
ungraded streets, iil-kept roadways, shift
ie-sness OF appearance, squalid structures
on chief highways, genteel shabbiness
upon business streets, irregular and rough
sidewalks, unkempt yards and parks-all
these tend to turn the stranger away. He
CONES from sections where neatness. tidi-
ness, energy and push are proverbial, and
where the people have an ingrained love
for order, and a broad estimate of the duty
man owes the town of his home. Scenes
with which We are familiar, and which
have, therefore, ceased to impress us as un-
attractive, TO him are offensive, and induces
10 community character and thrift. we
must, therefore, improve in and out Of
critics: We must make ready; we must
testify to our faith in the country by our
acts rather than by declarations. Make
ready and make known; as The Ahc saws
Le; those interested in each locality make its
merits known without detractinc from any
otasls- IN short, brethren we all nave good
tang and there is no room for envy We all
lave - much TO build up that there is no time
a. tsar anything down. Every hand can be
sept oNsH IN sweeping and garnishinE and none
AcS9 o. used IN scratching out Of eyes